http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2633 Comments for "Being-Elvis is Dead" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2633 <p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/wards/2274816866/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2363/2274816866_3af8886caf_m.jpg" class="right"/></a>Tom Whitwell on the future of the music biz, a future that is remarkably slanted to what I'd been describing a few years back with my one-track universe, a future where pop-stars work hard for modest money, where the relationship star-to-fan is more than airplay and DRM-locks, where trading tracks are free-exchange tokens of tribal membership, and a future where record companies have a few essential clues about how the global social-networking post-boomer, post-massmarket world really works:<br /> <blockquote><cite class="blog-source">I've bought plenty of Grace Jones records with money. I'd happily pay more money to see her play a concert. Did anyone from her label email me to say she was playing in London on a Thursday night when I was at home watching Bonekickers? No. They took my money and didn't even get my name.</cite></p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2633#comments slay the RIAA Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:43:26 -0400 mrG 2633 at http://blog.teledyn.com